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Looking the other way?

Goldman was hit with civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday. The SEC charged Goldman with selling a securities-based product to its clients without disclosing that the hedge fund manager who’d helped devise the product had bet on it to fail.

The SEC approved the charges, reportedly on a party-lines vote, and they have become a central part of the debate in Washington over financial regulatory reform.

“What I would say is that I think the bigger question is maybe not what happened in this case,” Bachus said of the Goldman case. “But, I think it’s becoming apparent that since at least 2004, the regulators looked the other way, and there was a certain amount of -- I don’t know if you call it cooperation or conspiracy -- between some of the large companies to cover their tracks.”

- Top Republican asserts feds ‘looked the other way’ from financial fraud, TheHill.com, April 20, 2010.

2. The semis would rumble down country roads packed full of wild horses. Truckload after truckload, sometimes 36 horses at a time, all with the same destination: a ranch in the small town of La Jara, Colo.

Records show that for years, the Bureau of Land Management sold and shipped more than 1,700 wild horses from its animal holding facilities to just one rancher. Now federal investigators are trying to figure out: What did he do with all those mustangs? And did any of them ultimately end up being butchered in the slaughter plants of Mexico?